Garment hanger



Aug. 10, 1943;

H. c. RUEN GARMENT HANGER Original Filed Feb. 2, 1937 Snnentbr h e/7: Puen X attorney Patented Aug. 10, 1943 ,pwirsof srnrss PAT NT: orric sgg v n i v V I t t j 2,326,685: i ff; 1 I GA NGER Henry onaennetmit, Mich, a signor, by mesne assignments, to Cleane "corporation of Michigan V V i s Substitutedfor abandoned application Serial No. f' 123,540, February 1937: This sei-ii'i,1942, Serial No. 438,015

rs Hanger Company," al.

airme r '2 earns; (014223-47? a I This invention realtes' to garment hanger sand particularly hangers whereina garment support and a member for hanging suchsupport are separately formed. Thisapplicatio-nis'a substitute for abandoned application 'S'erqNo. 123,640, filed Feb-2, 1937, and formally allowed A'ugust;8;1938. 1

An object of the invention is toadaptthe garment support of a garment hanger "to beinex Slain the upper po'rtioni of the board; Thelower end'portion of the shank is upwardly bent, "as

pensively blanked or stamped from lightg'stiii,

and preferably fibrous sheet material. and to adapt airehanger member to be reiadily operatively connected'to such support. 5

. Another object isto so simplify the connection a between a garment support and a wire hanger member that said parts may. be delivered, disassembled, to a consignee and may be be assembled by him without special machinery or skilled I labor. g A further object is to provide a'garment hanger whereof the garment support is well suited to carry an advertisement and is' formed of a material unlikely to soil a garment.

Fig. 2a is another vertical section of the hanger, taken on the line 2a-2a of'Fig. 1. V

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig, 2 but disclosing an alternative construction.

Fig. 4 is another view similar to Fig. 2, il1ustrating another modification;

These and various other objects are attainedindicated at 1,; in spa'ced'relation ame shank, .f.

proper, andthus forms affU-shaped"clip"adapted to snugly embrace the we; centrjalf portion of I .s v the board; The upturned portion 'l'is terminally' J ,bent'toward thesh'ankproper, as'indicated at 8," r for engagement in an aperture 9 formed i the lower'portion of the board ,atitsniedial axis; H The clip comprisingthe upwardl extensionil -is preferably proportioned to be placed under a" spring stress as it is ngaged 'imthe described manner with the? board At: a convenient -distance above the board, the shank is formed with the usual supporting hook Ill r y In attaching the wireh'anger member to board, the shank 4 is passed through the slot 6,

as indicated by the upper dash line showing in Fig. 2, and the clip portion of the shank is dis-j posed beneath the board, as in th'e lower'dash line showing of said-figure.- The hanger member is then raised to grip the boardwithin the clip as shown in full lines; The bent end 8snaps into the aperture 9 when the hanger, member is in Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the garment support shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a front view, partly broken away, of a I hanger employing a further modification.

Fig. '7 is a vertical sectional view of the modification shown in Fig. 6, taken on the 1ine.l'|

thereof. r

In these views reference character I designates a board of aproximate crescent shape and formed preferably as a stamping of light, stiff material such as paper box board, the upper edge thereof diverging downwardly from its center to its ends in gradual arcuate form toprovide garment seats 2. midway of its length, as indicated at 3. s

Midway between its ends,-the board I is engaged by the shank 4 of a wire hanger member, said shank being preferably straight except for an offset 5 formed intermediately of its length, and adapting the shank to pass through an aperture The lower edge or the'support is notched final positiom'so that considerable, resistance is offered to disengagement'of the parts.

In each of its end portions, the board shown) omitted and the'upturned'lower portion 1a of the shank is elongated to adapt its bent extremity-Ba'to snap'into theaperture 6a; when the parts are assembled. 'Inthisconstruction, the shank doesnot pass through'the slot 6a but is formed with a slight bend or hump II which projects intoithe s lotto assist in maintaining assembly of the parts.

Inbothof the described constructions,- the U-' shaped-bend of the clip is soen'gaged in the notch 3 of the board as to restrain thelower. end 'off the hanger member from any lateral movement. 7

V In the modificationf disclosed byFig. 4 theboard I'b is"pr'essed to form 'a corrugationiz, downwardly extending. from the center of its up-' ":l. 'per edge and progressively decreasing in depth,

the aperture 6b opening in the lowerj onmo st shallow portion of such corrugation. The shank 4b of the wire hanger member is accommodated I within the corrugation, and may henceb'e. exfi the" - I is preferably form'edwith an aperture .Illa and in each i. such aperture is engaged'a hook formed on-the upper end of awire element |;0 b',.said.- elementj spending from the board andhaving-its lower? portion hooked 'to engagea skirt'ortrousers (not tended through said aperture with little, if any, offset. The upturned lower portion 1b of the shank 4b is flattened and embedded in the lower edge portion of the board lb, being thus'fully concealed and quite rigidly attached to the support.

In the construction r'shownbyi'lgshdand 7, the board Ic substantial-1y contorm's to previous description with the exception that it is integrally formed with a. tongue l3, initially projecting upwardly from the center of the board,

'as indicated in dash lines in Fig. 6. By scoring ments being soiled thereby, and its thickness is sufiicient to provide a considerably larger seating surface for a garment than is afforded by the common triangular wire hanger.

It will be noted,- in each of the described modifications of the invention, that the hanger memberiis passed through or 'set'into the board at two or more points vertically spaced along the median line of the hanger tosecure a rigid connection;

The invention is presented as including all such'modifications and changes as come Wi this tongue at its juncture with-the board; it

' adapted to be downwardlybent inrclose proximity to the board as best appears in Fig.7. 'The shank 4c of the wire hanger member hasan up;

turned lower portion lc substantially as hereto; fore described, and the bent extremity 8c of said 1 portion seats substantially centrally against and bites into the tongue l3 under the spring stress imposed in applying-the hanger. memberefFig shows in dash lines hon the shank 4c 'i'sinitia'lly passed through the' aperturel'flc to establish its engagement with the board it;

- ,In any-of-q-the several.- de scribed forms the invention, the ,garmenhsupp'ort may ,be inexpensively vproduced, from sheet material by; a sin; gle stamping operation and any desired advertising may, in the same operation, be'applied to said support. In shipping-thedisassembledparts of thehangen they may be packaged muchmore compactly than} would be feasible if assembly were effected at the point of shipment. .The use of non-metallic materialto =form the garment-supporting board minimizes-the likelihood of garhanger member.

the scope of the following claims.

What I claim is: I

1. A garment hanger comprising a wire hanger member, having a hooked upper end and upfturned atits lower end to form a clip, anda lat- I --erally elongated, garment-carrying member hav- 7 ing an aperture approximately midway between its ends, afiording a ,passage for the hanger member, and having anedge downward from such aperture, presenting .a substantially horizontal portion to said clip and adapted to be embraced by the clip through an upward actuation of the hanger member, in completing the assembly, said edge being formed with a notch wherein the clip is. vengagedupon said upward-actuation 0t the I ZQA garment hanger as set forth-in claim 1 the clip having afree end portion bent toward the garment-carrying member to 'resist downward disengagement of the hanger member from the garm nt-carrying member.

- V HENRY c. RUEN. 

